RDFS

Publication date: 2004-02-10 (with a previous version published at: 1999-02-22) Created by: RDF Working Group List of documents at: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rdf

RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema (RDFS)

Overview

RDFS is a general-purpose language for representing simple RDF vocabularies on the Web. Other vocabulary definition technologies, like OWL or SKOS, build on RDFS and provide language for defining structured, Web-based ontologies which enable richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive communities.

Recommended Reading

The RDFS is part RDF Specification suite Recommendations, published in 2004. This suite also includes an RDF Primer that covers the basic RDFS features, too.

A number of textbooks have been published on RDF, RDFS, and on Semantic Web in general. Please, refer to a separate page listing some of those, as maintained by the community. That list also includes references to conference proceedings and article collections that might be of general interest.

Tools that are listed as relevant to RDFS

(Note that you can browse tools per tool categories or programming languages, too.)

Last modified and/or added

The description of the following tools have been added and/or modified most recently.

• GraphDB (last modified: 31 October 2016)
• Content Annotation Manager (last modified: 30 August 2016)
• Intelligent Topics Manager (last modified: 30 August 2016)
• Smart Content Factory (last modified: 29 August 2016)
• Profium Sense (last modified: 26 April 2016)

All relevant tools

This is a list of all tools listed on this wiki, and that are marked as relevant to RDFS.

• Alignment API (api, command line tool). Directly usable from Java
• AllegroGraph RDF Store (triple store, programming environment, reasoner, development environment, rdfs reasoner). Directly usable from Java, LISP, Python, Prolog, C, Ruby, Perl
• Anzo Suite (development environment, programming environment, visualizer, converter). Directly usable from Javascript, Java, .Net
• Jena, a Java RDF API and toolkit (triple store, programming environment, reasoner, rule reasoner, owl reasoner, rdfs reasoner, parser). Directly usable from Java
• Blazegraph (Formerly Bigdata®) (triple store, reasoner, rdfs reasoner). Directly usable from Java
• Brahms (programming environment). Directly usable from C++
• Content Annotation Manager (api, tagging). Directly usable from Java
• Common Lisp Reasoner (programming environment, rule reasoner, owl reasoner, reasoner). Directly usable from LISP
• Callimachus, a Linked Data management system (programming environment, browser, sparql endpoint, special browser, visualizer, development environment). Directly usable from Java, Javascript
• ClioPatria (triple store, programming environment, reasoner, rule reasoner). Directly usable from Prolog, C
• Conceptual Resource Search Engine (Corese) (programming environment, reasoner, rule reasoner, rdfs reasoner, triple store, sparql endpoint). Directly usable from Java
• DOME (development environment).
• DSP Platform (rdf generator, tagging, sparql endpoint). Directly usable from Java
• Datalift (converter, triple store, programming environment, development environment). Directly usable from Java, Javascript
• dotNetRDF (api, programming environment). Directly usable from .Net, C-sharp
• /facet (special browser, rdf or owl browser, semantic web browser). Directly usable from Prolog
• Fluent Editor, an Ontology Editor (editor, development environment, validator, visualizer). Directly usable from R-language
• GeoSPARQL (programming environment). Directly usable from Java
• GoNTogle: A Tool for Semantic Annotation and Search (tool, tagging, recommendation, search engine). Directly usable from Java
• GraphDB (triple store, reasoner, sparql endpoint, rdfs reasoner, owl reasoner). Directly usable from Java, C
• graphVizdb: A Scalable Platform for Interactive Large Graph Visualization (visualizer, rdf or owl browser, special browser, search engine). Directly usable from Java
• Intelligent Topics Manager (rdf generator, thesaurus management tools). Directly usable from Java, Javascript
• InstantRDF for Umbraco (converter, rdf generator). Directly usable from C-sharp
• Semantics.Server (reasoner, triple store, owl reasoner, rdfs reasoner).
• LITEQ (api, programming environment). Directly usable from .Net, F-sharp
• ... further results